Richard Ford is a novelist, story-writer, and essayist, and a Community of Writers lifer. His work has been awarded many international prizes, including the Prix Femina, in France, and the Princess of Asturias Prize in Spain, as well as the Pulitzer Prize and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in the US. His novel Wildlife was recently developed as a film by the actor Paul Dano. His work has been translated into 35 languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City. He lives with his wife Kristina Ford in Boothbay, Maine, and in Billings, Montana.
